Stars of industry and academia elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering

Stars of industry and academia elected to the Royal Academy of Engineering

16 Sep 2014

The Royal Academy of Engineering is delighted to announce the election of 59 new Fellows at its AGM this week, including one new Honorary Fellow and seven International Fellows.

The newly elected Fellows join the Academy from diverse backgrounds, including leading engineering and manufacturing companies and world-leading academic institutions.

All new Fellows have been invited to join the Fellowship in recognition of their outstanding and continuing contributions to engineering.

Professor Dame Ann Dowling DBE FREng FRS, President of the Royal Academy of Engineering, said: ”Our newly elected Fellows bring an enormous breadth of expertise to the Academy, widening our collective scope and knowledge. I know that they will all make significant contributions to the Academy’s activities in their time as Fellows and we look forward to working with them to create benefit for society through engineering.”

The complete list of new Fellows for 2014 is as follows:

Honorary Fellow

Lord Bamford DL HonFREng

Chairman, JCB Group

Fellows

Professor Andrew Amis FREng

Professor of Orthopaedic Biomechanics, and Head of Medical Engineering Group, Department of Mechanical Engineering, and Department of Surgery and Cancer, Imperial College London

Ayman Asfari FREng

Group Chief Executive, Petrofac Limited

Professor Muhammed Basheer FREng

Professor of Structural Engineering, University of Leeds

Professor Robin Bloomfield FREng

Founding Partner, Adelard LLP, and Professor of Software and System Dependability, City University London

Professor Alistair Borthwick FREng

Professor of Applied Hydrodynamics, Institute of Energy Systems, University of Edinburgh

Professor Anthony Bull FREng

Professor of Musculoskeletal Mechanics, Head of Department of Bioengineering, and Director, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Imperial College London

Professor Steve Bull FREng

Cookson Group Chair in Materials Engineering, School of Chemical Engineering and Advanced Materials, Newcastle University

Chadwick Professor of Civil Engineering in the Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering and Director of the Accessibilty Research Group and CRUCIBLE Centre for Lifelong Health and Wellbeing, University College London

Richard Vie FREng

Vice President Technical Development and Quality Assurance, Corporate Shipbuilding, Carnival Corporation and plc

Steve Wadey FREng

Executive Group Director Technical and Managing Director UK, MBDA

Professor John Watts FREng

Director of Research, Department of Mechanical Engineering Sciences, University of Surrey

Deputy Secretary-General, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Professor and Director, Centre for Research on Intelligent Perception and Computing, National Laboratory of Pattern Recognition, Institute of Automation, Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS)

Dr Andrew Viterbi FREng (USA)

Presidential Chair Professor, University of Southern California

Professor Jianyun Zhang FREng (China)

Professor and President, Nanjing Hydraulic Research Institute, Director-General, Dam Safety Management, and Director-General, Research Centre for Climate Change, Ministry of Water Resources.

Notes for Editors

Royal Academy of Engineering. As the UK’s national academy for engineering, we bring together the most successful and talented engineers for a shared purpose: to advance and promote excellence in engineering.
We provide analysis and policy support to promote the UK’s role as a great place to do business. We take a lead on engineering education and we invest in the UK’s world-class research base to underpin innovation. We work to improve public awareness and understanding of engineering. We are a national academy with a global outlook.
We have four strategic challenges: Drive faster and more balanced economic growth; foster better education and skills; lead the profession; promote engineering at the heart of society.

For more information please contact:

Giorgio De Faveri at the Royal Academy of EngineeringT: 020 7766 0655E:Giorgio De Faveri